The year is 1771 and the Highland village of Ballybliss is being terrorized by a dragon. Years before, the villagers had betrayed their chieftain to the English, driving him to curse them with his dying breath. When a cantankerous dragon begins to haunt the local castle ruins, the villagers believe the curse has come to fruition.

Gwendolyn Wilder does not believe in dragons. So when the villagers leave her in the ruins as a sacrificial victim to appease the dragon's insatiable demands, there is no reason to be afraid ... is there? But when Gwendolyn wakes up the next morning, she finds herself not in the belly of the dragon, but in a luxurious bed. Her second shock comes when Bernard MacCullough, a.k.a. The Dragon, turns out to be no monster but a masculine creature of devastating beauty ... a man who will tempt her to believe in something even more unlikely than dragons: true love.